A Discussion on Bhajagovindam : ( 19/01/2013. )

  ====================================================================================================== Monday 06, January 2025, 07:30. BHAJA GOVINDAM - 29.  Final Concluding Songs  PART IV – Song 28-31  “How to Plan One’s Liberation”  Song - 29: Wealth is Calamitous  Swami Sri Adi Sankaracharya. ===================================================================================== Song - 29: Wealth is Calamitous.  1  artham anartham bhaavaya nityam = “Wealth is calamitous”, thus reflect always.  2 naasti tatah sukhaleshah satyam; = the truth is there is no happiness at all in it.   3 putraad api dhana-bhaajaam bheetih = To the rich, there is fear even from one’s own son.  4  sarvatraisha vihitaa reetih. = This is the way with wealth everywhere. ====================================================================================== 1-2   Artham Anartham:  This is a beautiful poetical device used at the very start....

  ============================================================================ Sunday 13, October 2024, 05:30. BHAJA GOVINDAM - 28.  Swami Sri Adi Sankaracharya. ======================================================================= Final Concluding Slogas  PART IV – Slogas - 28-31  “How to Plan One’s Liberation”  IN KEEPING WITH Sri Shankaracharyaji’s style, he concludes in a most balanced  manner – with two verses of grave warning and two verses of the most compassionate  encouragement to the spiritual seeker. Together they form a quartet that fittingly concludes  this superb poem, in which devotion to God joins forces with exquisite poetry to do battle  against the most treacherous forces of lust and greed that threaten to devour all spirituality  from the surface of the earth.  ====================================================================== Song - 28: Beware of Carnal Pleasures  1  sukhatah kriyate raamaa bhoga...